Homemade Oil-Free Gluten-Free Granola

This homemade gluten-free granola is a healthy oil-free, low-fat, preservative-free version of what you would typically see at the store.

Gluten-Free Granola Anyone Would Love

It is packed with honey-coated fruit that has been dried down in the oven, nuts, seeds, raisins, mulberries, and chia seeds. All of these components make it a chunky gluten-free granola with clusters of different flavors and textures.

Add and subtract what extras you want from this recipe to suit your preferences. If you are fat-free, you can omit the pumpkin seeds and cashews. The maple syrup and orange juice act as the binder for the granola and keep it oil-free, while the cardamom and cinnamon add layers of flavor.

You won’t miss the oil, I promise! This gluten-free granola makes a great breakfast or snack. Add it to your favorite plant-based milk or yogurt, along with fresh chopped fruit, for a hearty bowl of food. You can store it in the freezer, where it will last for months, or in your pantry.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon contains the highest amount of antioxidants of all food sources—by several hundred times! It is great at regulating blood sugar, can shorten the length of your flu, and is great for expelling mucus from the body. It also has antiviral, bacterial, and fungal properties.

Orange Juice

Orange juice is packed full of beneficial glucose bound to bio-available calcium, vitamin C, and minerals. Juice is life-saving for people who have gastrointestinal problems. It is a healing tool and shouldn’t be considered bad for the earth. The fiber that results from juicing can be used to make garden soil and is ultimately there to create a skeleton for plants so they don’t fall apart. You can find freshly pressed varieties at the grocery stores, or you can make your own at home. In this recipe, the orange juice adds a delicious depth of flavor.

Maple Syrup

Maple syrup provides quality glucose for the brain and liver, is filled with minerals, and helps strengthen the nervous system. It is an amazing food from plant sap that holds this whole recipe together.

Oats

Oats are a great gluten-free granola grain option that doesn’t feed pathogens or irritate the digestive system. It is a filling and comforting food, eaten around the world in sweet and savory varieties for breakfast.

Homemade gluten-free granola instructions:

1. Chop up all the fruit and mix with honey, 3/4 cup of orange juice, and cardamom. Place in the oven on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes, turning the fruit every 5 – 6 minutes until the liquid from the orange juice and honey has dried up. The mixture will be warm and gooey.
2. Combine all of the dry ingredients in a large bowl.
3. In a separate bowl, combine the maple syrup, the rest of the orange juice, and cinnamon. Once you have combined those add the wet mixture to your dry mixture. Stir to evenly coat.
4. You might need two baking sheets for this, or bake on one in succession- spread your granola evenly on the tray and bake for about 20 minutes, turning the granola every 5 – 6 minutes to ensure even baking. Let cool for 15 minutes.
5. Combine your fruit and oatmeal mixture!
6. Store in an air-tight glass container.

Other Breakfast Recipes

This wild blueberry compote would be a yummy addition to a granola bowl with plant-based milk or yogurt. Wild blueberries are the stars of the antioxidant fruit world.

Homemade Oil-Free Granola

Muneeza Ahmed

A simple oil-free granola recipe that is great for breakfast, snacks, and on the go. It is sweetened with maple syrup, honey, and orange juice, which results in a healthy and high-energy alternative to store-bought granola.

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 40 minutes mins

Total Time 1 hour hr

Course Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine American

Servings 8

Equipment

• 2 baking sheets
• Parchment Paper
• 3 Mixing bowls 2 large and 1 small
• 1 Mixing spoon

Ingredients

  

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• 2 cups gluten-free rolled oats
• 2 cups gluten-free steel-cut oats
• ½ cup chia seeds
• ½ cup pumpkin seeds Optional, omit if fat-free
• ½ cup cashews Omit if fat-free
• ½ cup raisins
• ½ cup mulberries
• ¾ cup maple syrup
• 1 ½ cups orange juice
• 2 tsp cinnamon powder
• 3 bananas, chopped
• 2 apples, chopped
• 2 tbsp raw honey
• ½ tsp cardamom powder

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Instructions

 

• If you are omitting the pumpkin seeds and cashews to remain fat-free, add 1 cup of raisins instead of ½ a cup. 
• Start your oven at 400 F and prep baking sheets with parchment paper. 
• Start by chopping the fruit, and place it in a bowl. 
• Add the raw honey, 3/4 cup orange juice and cardamom and mix to make sure the honey evenly coats the fruit. Add raisins and mulberries to the fruit mixture, even though they are dried. The liquid from the orange juice and honey will help to plump up these dried fruits.
• Once the oven is at full temperature, spread the honey-covered fruit on your prepared baking sheet. Bake the fruit for about 15 - 20 minutes. 
• While the fruit is baking, place all the other ingredients, the oats, chia seeds, pumpkin seeds, and cashews in another mixing bowl.  
• Put the remaining orange juice, maple syrup, and cinnamon powder into a small bowl and mix thoroughly. 
• Pour the maple syrup and orange juice mixture over the oats, nuts & seeds mixture in the other bowl and coat evenly. 
• Evenly spread the granola mixture onto a baking sheet - you might need more than one baking tray or you may have to bake half the mixture in one tray and then the rest later. 
• Before baking the granola, pull out the fruit mixture and let it cool.
• Bake for 20 minutes making sure to turn the granola every 5 -6 minutes to ensure even crisp baking.
• Let the granola cool down for 15 minutes before breaking it up. Even if the granola is gooey when it comes out of the oven warm, as it cools, it will become more crisp.
• Add the baked fruit and the crispy broken-up granola together in a bowl and mix well. Then store in an air tight jar to use for breakfast or as a snack.

Keyword dairy-free, Fat-Free, gluten-free, Honey, kid-friendly, Low-fat, oil-free, Plant-Based, salt-free, Soy-free, Vegan

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